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Qatar remains fully committed to its currency peg to the US dollar and is not reviewing its currency policy, central bank governor Sheikh Abdullah bin Saud Al-Thani said on Wednesday.
"We are fully supporting the peg and will

Central bank deposits that Egypt's Gulf allies pledged at an investment summit will arrive in the country within days, the state news agency quoted central bank governor Hisham Ramez as saying on Monday.
Kuwait, Saudi Arabia a

India's central bank lowered its policy repo rate by 25 basis points to 7.5 per cent on Wednesday, its second inter-meeting cut this year on the back of easing inflation and what it said was the "weak state" of parts of the economy

Weakness in China's vast manufacturing sector, aggravated by high real borrowing costs and weak demand, appears to have driven the central bank to accelerate the pace of monetary easing to ward off deflation in the world's second-largest

Kuwait's central bank governor Mohammad Al-Hashel denied that he had conducted any illicit share trading, after a local newspaper reported the securities regulator had decided to refer him to prosecutors on suspicion of violating investment

Turkey's central bank raised foreign exchange reserve requirement ratios on Saturday, citing the need to support financial stability amid volatility in global markets.
With the lira currency trading at record lows against the

The United Arab Emirates central bank discussed margin lending at a board meeting this week and ordered that all aspects of the issue be studied, the central bank said on Wednesday.
In a brief statement describing discussions at t

The central banks of the United Arab Emirates and China aim to activate their 35 billion yuan ($5.7 billion) currency swap agreement soon, a senior UAE central bank official said on Tuesday.
The agreement, designed to facilitate t

A delegation from Washington’s Central Bank recently visited Bahrain’s Ministry of Works (MoW) to discuss the use of green buildings system and renewable energy applications.
The delegation was headed by Mena energy ex

The fixed peg of UAE dirham against the US dollar will remain in place, the UAE Central Bank Governor Mubarak Rashid Khamis Al Mansouri has reiterated.
Reacting to media reports regarding a study on the dirham’s peg to the U